I was just getting ready for bed, listening to VNV Nation - Frika, chewing my vitiman suppliment and enjoying the strawberry flavour i was reasonably happy. i was gonna get to bed and be asleep before 12 for the first time in a few days. then i heard a noise... a dull rattleing. i automatically thought it was a fan, but i took my headphones off and i couldnt hear it over the normal fan noise... have way through VNV Nation - Further and my glass of Soda water, *Clack clack clack*. definatly fan failing. so i got down in the customary position. undser desk, looking into side of comp... nothing. i touched the middle of my GPU fan and NB fan to check for bearings, nothing, did the same to the Thermaltake Smartfan on the CPU... nothing... i then check its stick mounted securely and give the fan a slight wiggle.. nothing. so i go to pull my hand out to shut down the comp just in case, and go to bed...
the noise was like someone trying to cut sheet of 1/8" steel with a soft wood blade in a circular saw.
then there was the pain.
i am now missing about 1/8th of an inch from my left hand middle finger, and the finger nail has been completely removed
about half an hour of obsceneties, kitchen towel and 2 plasters later, i examined the fan. the spring cir-clip that holds the shaft in the back of the fan had snapped. and it was only about 4 weeks old. the finger nail and one of the fan blades have formed some kind of grotesque origami display as they have cut into each other and stuck. there is a fine blood spray around the inside of the comp, but i cant find the end of my finger. the cat wil probably eat it.
i am NEVER going to buy a thermaltake fan again. i am going to stick to sheilded industrial 240v's and watercooling. much fscking safer
